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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 20010920
Author:CLARINDA HARRISS

Poet Millay still can shock, soothe readers

By CLARINDA HARRISS

Los Angeles Times- Washington Post News Service

Thursday, September 20, 2001

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. By Nancy Milford. Random House. 550 pages. $29.95.

Dead from morphine and alcohol more than a decade before the Summer of Love, dead in critical esteem for almost as long, Edna St. Vincent Millay continues a comeback that's sure to get a major boost from Nancy Milford's almost obscenely fascinating biography of this early 20th-century American poet.

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